Although the following links and book references have been posted previously, I thought they were worth repeating since we have so many new members who need help with record extraction/translation. These will help you to understand and translate your ancestral records.

The dialects of modern Italian all have their roots in the spoken form of Latin (Vulgar Latin), in use throughout the Roman Empire. Vulgar Latin had, no doubt, its own local peculiarities before the fall of the Empire. The political instability that followed Roman rule kept Italy from re-uniting as ...

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